Funders & Collaborators

Primary Funding

PAEDS is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health with contributions from the state health departments of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory.

NHMRC Project Grant (1049557) 2012-2015: Febrile seizures following vaccination in children: How common are they and what is the long term clinical outcome? Wood N, Buttery J, Gold M, Richmond P, Crawford N, Barton B, Macartney K.

Australian Government Department of Health Contracts for AusVaxSafety: (surveillance of the safety of influenza and pertussis vaccines in children) – provide funding for analysis of severe acute neurologic events following immunisation.

Collaborators

PAEDS is privileged to work with several associate investigators, collaborators and contributors.

Influenza

The PAEDS Network also wishes to acknowledge the valuable contribution of the following individuals:

Associate Professor Yvonne Zurynski who retired from PAEDS in 2015. Yvonne played an instrumental role in the development and inception of PAEDS in 2007. Yvonne’s outstanding knowledge, research experience and leadership have assisted in the continued growth of PAEDS and she played pivotal roles in the surveillance of conditions such as acute flaccid paralysis and pandemic influenza in 2009. We wish to extend our deepest thanks and appreciation to Yvonne for the solid foundation she helped establish for PAEDS.

We also wish to acknowledge all the heads of diagnostic microbiology laboratories and emergency departments at each of our PAEDS hospitals. The assistance of these and other hospital personnel facilitate timely and complete collection of information on children with all the serious conditions for which PAEDS conducts surveillance.

And finally, we wish to extend particular thanks to our former PAEDS investigators and coordinators/nurses for their hard work and valuable contributions.